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Now he has mentioned how one horse is “from Adam West’s stable in Epsom, home of The Derby.”
Classic.
He had a good day yesterday, also managed to inform us several times that the Bowens had ‘come all the way from Wales’.
I won’t ever hear a word said against Derek – errors or not, repetition or not, cringe or not, he remains by a country mile racing’s greatest casual user friendly entertainer, ideal for holiday meetings.
He’s the “Hi Di Hi!” Yellow coat of the game and still going strong in his 70s.
People like Derek and Frankie Dettori know how to gently and effortlessly entertain the wider public and draw them into the game.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Agree ID. There was a packed out crowd at Perth yesterday and I am sure they did not mind his commentary.
I just knew he would mention Rubstic. And was not sure why the world’s greatest Flat race needed a mention in a commentary on a National Hunt race in Scotland.
There was also a huge crowd at Doncaster yesterday because popular beat combo “McFly” were performing after racing. “Sir” Robert Cooper on SSR said something like “Lots of young people here today for the concert but you never know, some might get the racing bug.”
It would be nice to think so Sir Bob but how many of them will be there on November Handicap day or for a midweek jumps meeting?
Agreed too, his commentaries are well worth unmuting for, much prefer his enthusiasm to the awful inane ‘bantz’ From some of the itv racing mob.
Thommo is at Fakenham. The first race had an odds on favourite.
I thought it was also odds on that if it won Thommo would tell us that it “won it like an odds on favourite should” but he let us down.
“There was also a huge crowd at Doncaster yesterday because popular beat combo “McFly” were performing after racing. “Sir” Robert Cooper on SSR said something like “Lots of young people here today for the concert but you never know, some might get the racing bug.”
That sort of thing is usually said by those who pay nowt to get in rather than 40 quid. It’s a load of bollox anyway although the racecourses aren’t too bothered about that.
the run was so good looking, Derek asked it out on a date
Blackbeard to conquer the World
The best thing is the good looking run usually involves said horse being pulled out wide 20 lengths off the leaders while going backwards!
A Thommo masterpiece in the last at Fakenham.
He said Toby Wynne had “a great name for a jockey”. He also advised us he had won on 3 of his last 4 mounts, which meant he had “a 75% strike rate”. Does that mean a jockey who won on their last ride has a 100% strike rate?
He then clarified, lest there was any confusion, that Bobmahley is “named after the famous singer”. He also advised us that Bob Marley “owned the winner of the Trinidad Oaks.”
You don’t get information like that from Richard Hoiles or Simon Holt.
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